Overview

you create and upload to the CS web server a web page about yourself using HTML.

Your Personal Web Site

The second task is to create a very small web site about yourself. It will contain only two pages:

one which will introduce yourself, and

one to tell your visitors about your hobbies

This assignment is fun and fairly open-ended. The purpose is to give you practice
writing basic HTML code. You will also gain experience with the tools for text
editing and file transfer.

Setup

Download a zipped copy of the hw1 starting folder onto your Desktop and open it to see its contents.
At this point, it contains a starting template for your page,
assign1.html, and a (empty) subfolder named images, to hold all the images you will use for this site.

Part A: Write and link two html pages

Using TextWrangler (or your text editor of choice), open assign1.html.
Add HTML code to specify the
content of your page, which should be some information about yourself,
your home town, your ambitions, or whatever
strikes your fancy. The goal is not volume, but demonstrating skill.

Create a second html page, named hobbies.html, and save it, within the
hw1 folder, as a sibling to the assign1.html page. Add some content
to tell us about what you like to do in your spare time.

Interlink these two pages, by adding a link from the assign1.html page to the
hobbies.html page, and vice versa.

You can write whatever you like, but it must be valid, well-formatted HTML code to
receive full credit (read the section
below on coding style).
Both pages should have descriptive titles, and a variety of HTML tags, that you have learned about in lab and
lecture, to specify the structure and content of your page, including but
not limited to:

an unordered list to provide personal information

an ordered list to describe courses you're taking this semester

a paragraph to explain why you're taking this class (with an
appropriate header)

another paragraph to tell us something about your goals in life or
something you are proud of

images and links (at least one of each) that provide more context
for what you're writing

Notes:

You must put all the images used in your pages within the images folder.

Each image must be 100 kB or less in size, so resize or crop your images to meet this requirement.

Part B: Validation

Validate your HTML code using the "Validate by File Upload"
or "Validate by Direct Input" option of the W3C validator.

When your validation succeeds, include the HTML validation icon () at the bottom of your page
(you can copy the code for the icon from our lab2 page).

Submission

You'll turn this assignment in by uploading your hw1 folder to the
CS server (you will not submit a hardcopy).

Uploading to CS Server

Once you are done, the structure of your hw1 folder on your Desktop should look like this:

Do the following to upload your folder from your Desktop to the server:

Check that everything uploaded properly to the correct location:
using a browser, enter the URL for your assign1.html page on the server (substituting
your own username for wendyw) :

http://cs.wellesley.edu/~wendyw/hw1/assign1.html

Test your work again, to make sure all is working well (images shown, links working, etc).

Coding Style

Your HTML code must be written cleanly and indented appropriately to
reflect the structure of the elements you are defining. This is a graded
aspect of every assignment. Furthermore, you must comment
your code in all homework and project pages. Comments include
a header comment at the top of the file, and comments within the code when a
comment will help clarify the purpose of a line or section of code. You should also
enter comments to state where you found code you are using, which is not your own and was not discussed in class.

Your html code lines should be of a reasonable length, so that you don't get
a horizontal scroll bar when you view the source of your page using
a web browser. The way
to avoid this is to put hard returns in your code: that is,
press the return or enter key when the line starts
getting too long. In TextWrangler, stick to the area on the screen
on the left of the line delimiter. As an approximate
rule, the length of a line shouldn't go beyond 80 characters.

Due Date/Time

Remember that assignments may not be turned in late. They are
due at midnight on the due date (check the
schedule). Furthermore,
remember that this policy means that you should not
modify turned in work after the due time has passed, so
that when we grade it, it's not time-stamped late.

Honor Code

The Honor Code applies to this course. You are
encouraged to discuss assignments with other students, the tutors, and with
your instructors. However, you must
solve, write up, debug, test and document each assignment alone. In other words, it is acceptable to talk with other
students in English (or any other human language), but not
acceptable to use any formal language and especially not HTML,
CSS or JavaScript in your communications. You should not be looking at other students' (current or past)
code or showing them yours. If you worked with others or you
have obtained help from any source, you must acknowledge their
contribution in writing.

Grading

These are the criteria we use to grade the homework:

Homework was submitted on the server by the due date. We have a program that checks the
timestamp of your files. Late submissions receive 0 points.

Folders and files have the specified names and are uploaded to the proper location, otherwise we
cannot see your page.

Code is validaded, and the corresponding image shows at the bottom of the page.
no errors.

HTML files have comments at the top and as necessary interspersed in the code.

Your code follows our recommended coding style.

You have used all HTML elements we required.

The links are working as expected.

Each of the images you are using is smaller than 100 KB and shows in the page.